More than half of post-9/11 combat veterans say they have a mental health condition, but three-fourths report they are getting care, according to a new survey of young veterans conducted by Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

Back in 2010, the secretary of the Navy and the chief of naval operations made a $100 bet with then-Naval Academy superintendent Vice Adm. Mike Miller that he wouldn't survive a second four-year stint back on the yard.

With female officers having served in the boomer force for nearly three years, the Navy is aiming for women to make up a significant portion of the ballistic-missile submarine force by 2020, one of the new waypoints in the silent service...

With Congress scheduled to recess in a week, the chairmen of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs committees offered competing proposals Thursday to fix a veterans' health care program scandalized by long patient wait times and falsifie...

One soldier's career: Ranger with eight deployments, lost his hand to a grenade while saving his buddies, pinned with the Medal of Honor, met presidents and celebrities, smiling in dress uniform as grand master at parades and speaker at ...

Plans for a comprehensive Veterans Affairs Department reform bill that appeared all but finished a month ago devolved into partisan bickering and funding fights on Thursday, casting doubt on the future of a deal.

An influential Democratic senator threatened Thursday to block U.S. arms sales to Iraq if Congress doesn't get an assessment of Iraqi forces and assurances the weapons won't fall into the hands of extremist militants.

After more than a dozen years fighting wars against unsophisticated opponents and technology in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Air Force is refocusing its training on tests ripped from the headlines - surface-to-air missiles, chemical weapons...

Gunmen riding on a motorcycle opened fire and killed two Finnish women aid workers in the western Afghan city of Herat on Thursday, officials said, the latest in a series of attacks on foreign civilians that has rattled aid workers, cont...

The photos taken nearly a mile under the Gulf of Mexico are so clear that small holes are visible in a lifeboat that may have gone down or been scuttled when a passenger ship was sunk by a Nazi submarine in 1942.

Pfc. Paul Ieti's performance in the first round of NBC's 'America's Got Talent' earned a standing ovation and hugs from three of the show's four celebrity judges - a supermodel, a Spice Girl and Howard Stern.

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki rejected an attempt by Iran to persuade him to step down, senior Iraqi politicians said Wednesday, underlining his determination to defy even his top ally to push for a third term in office and furth...

Europe's top human rights court ruled Thursday that Poland violated the rights of two terror suspects by allowing the CIA to secretly imprison them on Polish soil from 2002-2003 and facilitating the conditions under which they were subje...

Gunmen attacked a prisoner convoy north of Baghdad on Thursday, setting off a gunbattle with troops in which scores of prisoners and eight soldiers were killed, brutally underscoring Iraq's instability as lawmakers convened to elect a ne...

Havana (AFP) July 23, 2014 Chinese President Xi Jinping wrapped up a nine-day Latin American tour in Cuba on Wednesday, heading home with dozens of deals underlining Beijing's growing interest - and influence - in the region. Xi kicked o...

Washington (AFP) July 23, 2014 Washington is still weighing Iraq's request to launch air strikes against Islamic militants, but is working to boost the Iraqi army as it battles the extremists, a top US diplomat said Wednesday. After spen...

Beijing (AFP) July 23, 2014 Chinese citizens confronted by knife-wielding attackers should "quickly run away", authorities have advised in an updated anti-terrorism handbook. But those made of sterner stuff, it suggests in a section enti...

Washington DC (UPI) Jul 23, 2014 July 28 marks the centenary of the start of World War I - also known as the "Great War" and tragically and wrongly described by President Woodrow Wilson as the "war to end all wars." That war was neither ...

London (AFP) July 23, 2014 Britain and France are trading accusations of hypocrisy over sanctions against Russia in a row that reveals deeper European divisions on how to react to the MH17 disaster, analysts said Wednesday. The "Entente ...

Gaza City, Palestinian Territories (AFP) July 23, 2014 An Israeli air strike on the northern Gaza Strip killed five people on Wednesday evening, medics said, as Israel's army announced two more soldiers had died in fighting. Earlier, Isr...

Canberra, Australia (UPI) Jul 23, 2013 Australia's military announced a new partnership program to enhance research collaboration with universities in the country. The Defense Science Partnerships program is led by the Defense Science an...

Baghdad (AFP) July 23, 2014 Veteran Iraqi politician Fuad Masum was almost guaranteed to become Iraq's next president after the main Kurdish blocs in parliament agreed on his candidacy Thursday. According to an unofficial power-sharing a...

United Nations, United States (AFP) July 23, 2014 Accusing the Islamic State in Iraq of murder, hostage-takings and kidnappings, the UN envoy in Iraq on Wednesday called on the Security Council to firmly demand an end to atrocities. Nick...

Natick, Mass. (UPI) Jul 23, 2013 A pocket-sized sensor system to give dismounted soldiers enhanced situational awareness is being developed by the U.S. Army. The Cargo Pocket Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance program is being...

Washington (UPI) Jul 23, 2013 Three U.S. Air Force satellites were being launched into space on Wednesday to provide a "space neighborhood watch" capability. Two of the spacecraft will be operational satellites of the Geosynchronous Spac...

Bridgewater, Va. (UPI) Jul 21, 2013 The U.S. Army has tapped Dynamic Aviation to provide support for an electronics program for intercepting and jamming enemy communications in Afghanistan. The program is called the Communications Electr...

Seattle (UPI) Jul 23, 2013 The French Air Force has received the first of four airborne warning and control system aircraft from Boeing following a mid-life upgrade, the company reports. The upgrade was the largest set of modifications e...

Nashua, N.H. (UPI) Jul 23, 2013 BAE Systems has received a series of contracts from the U.S. Army for the supply of third-generation missile warning systems. BAE's updated Common Missile Warning System aids aircraft crew to not only loca...

The J-20, China's first fifth-generation stealth fighter designed by Chengdu Aerospace Corporation, may enter production on a small scale in 2017, after the completion of the aircraft's test flights, according to the Wuhan-based Hubei Da...

Air Algerie said it lost contact with one of its planes over Mali, Associated Press reports . The airline says flight AH5017 lost contact 50 minutes after takeoff from Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Fas...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway's intelligence service said Thursday it has received information about an imminent "concrete threat" against Norway from people with links to Islamic fighters in Syria. Benedicte Bjoernland, the he...

Ted Girard Top Priority Sector: cyber_security Image Caption: Ted Girard With new technologies -- such as virtualization, cloud computing and mobility -- come new threats to IT systems. The sophistication of those threats -- ...

Values customers stolen identities at $2,500 each Sony has offered a $15m settlement to gamers after its PlayStation Network (PSN) was comprehensively pwned, but it refuses to admit that it was at fault.…

Top Priority Sector: border_security U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is accepting applications nationwide for CBP officer positions at air, land, and seaports across the country, the agency says. As a result of funding pro...

7/24/14 Terrorism Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Of the 10,000 foreign fighters who have already joined militant groups in Syria and Iraq, 3,000 hold European or other Western passports, making it easy...

Top Priority Sector: cyber_security Seattle, WA-based F5 Networks has announced that BIG-IP application services are now available for VMware vCloud Hybrid Service , a secure, hybrid cloud service based on VM...

7/24/14 Nuclear weapons Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments It may sound strange to say that nuclear weapons must survive radiation. Sandia National Laboratories says, however, that as part of its mission o...

7/24/14 Water Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments A new study by University of California, Irvine ( UCI ) and NASA scientists finds more than 75 percent of the water loss in the drought-stricken Colorado Ri...

Top Priority Sector: military_force_protection During the 2014 annual meeting of the Massachusetts High Technology Council presented by Boston Scientific Corporation, Monster announced the launch of NewEnglandTechVets.org , an onli...

ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross today gave a public, yet personal thanks to two U.S. officials who were involved in a dramatic incident more than three decades ago in which Ross and dozens of others were held captiv...

Top Priority Sector: cyber_security Portland, OR-based Tripwire , a provider of advanced threat, security and compliance solutions, has announced the release of Tripwire Log Center 7.1, which includes new and updated solution ...

In India, a train slammed into a school bus, killing at least 18 children. People are furious about Indian Railways delaying putting up barrier at the level crossing. In South Korea, relatives of the victims of the Sewol Ferry disaster m...

Lancope security research director Tom Cross says network security teams have a lot more to learn from military doctrine beyond the kill chain concept. Find out more about terrain analysis and deceiving the enemy in this Q&A.

New ransomware has been dubbed Onion by researchers at Kaspersky Lab as its creators use command and control servers hidden in the Tor Network (a/k/a The Onion Router) to obscure their malicious activity.

Attackers have any number of methods for getting their malware onto users’ machines, but one of the easier and more effective ones is through drive-by downloads. Browser vendors have been adding defenses to mitigate this threat for...

A Series of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape: Michelle Zatlyn, co-founder CloudFlare… “Starting a tech company is not what most people from Saskatchewan do,” says the Canadian-born Michelle Zat...

BlackBerry Enterprise Services takes aim at SMEs - but there's a catch BlackBerry has given users another reason to throw out their BlackBerry servers – by putting BES10 into the cloud as a hosted service.…

Researchers at Citizen Lab have taken a close look at the extent of Internet filtering in Iraq, as well as the security of a popular offline chat app used there, and found an increase in the number of services blocked by the government a...

The RIVA video analytics offers many benefits – it adapts to environmental changes, reduces storage capacity and avoids false alarms. Furthermore, it can be used in almost every vertical market due to many different video ... The post Fr...

A French information security company VUPEN has recently disclosed that it held onto a serious Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerability for at least three years before revealing it at the Pwn2Own hacker competition held in March this year. T...

Travel agent fined £150K – Sloppy coding fingered A UK-based online travel firm has been fined £150,000 over a breach of breach of the Data Protection Act after their "insecure" coding reportedly exposed more than a million customer reco...

Israeli military spokeswoman says Israel detained about 150 people in Gaza on Wednesday for 'suspected involvement in terror activity;' about half of detainees released back to Gaza, while remaining are being questioned - @Reuters

The problems that come from doing security research on modern Web applications and other software aren’t just challenging for researchers, but also for the companies on the receiving end of their advisories. Companies unaccustomed ...